One written by the scribe So / Su Dan ( 素統 ) is dated 270 AD and corresponds closely with the Heshang Gong version.

Perhaps the oldest one, the Heshang Gong commentary, was most likely written in the 2nd century CE.

August 1988 Revised Version: Heshang was so popular that many audiences requested a repeat of the show after its first run.

River Elegy ( Heshang ) aroused immediate debates and great controversy among intellectual circles, the Party ’ s top leadership, and even the overseas Chinese community after its first broadcast in June 1988.

The debates between the two sides continued after the conference, until Zhao Ziyang was forced to issue two principles in dealing with the Heshang controversy.

Official Attention: Political controversy about Heshang arose and attracted attention from the Party ’ s top leadership when a university president phoned Hu Qili, a pro-reform officer who was a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo and the Central Secretariat, and warned him that the series might stir up student unrest.

People who held positive opinions toward Heshang shared the same standpoints with the ones in mainland China, whereas others criticized the film ’ s “ arbitrary ” attack on Chinese traditional culture and Confucianism.

After the first show, Heshang stirred up fierce debates among university students and intellectuals.

Many viewers regarded Heshang as the “ beginning of a new Chinese TV culture ” that was innovative in its artistic expression and cultural analysis.

Some audiences thus praised Heshang for its attempt to introduce the scholarly discussion about the impact of Chinese traditional culture to the public.

Meanwhile, Zhao Ziyang, Yang Shangkun, Deng Pufang ( Deng Xiaoping ’ s son ) and some other Politburo members privately screened Heshang.

While Zhao and Deng had supportive attitudes toward the film, a few members of the Politburo were offended by Heshang ’ s harsh criticism of Chinese traditions and the Party ’ s policies since 1978, as well as its attack on Leninist theories.

Confused by the divided opinions expressed from the top leadership, CCTV held internal meetings to discuss whether it should terminate broadcasting Heshang, but it did not reach a decision until the series was completely broadcast.

The revised Heshang was aired in August 1988 and triggered even greater debates.

At the Third Plenum of the 13th Central Committee, Wang Zhen, the then vice president, fiercely attacked Heshang by giving a long speech to criticize its “ counter-revolutionary ” contents.

Wang insisted the film not only posed “ vicious vilification ” toward Chinese people, but it was also “ anti-Party and anti-socialism .” Wang also criticized the “ blue sea civilization ” that was promoted in the film as “ bandit civilization and bandit logic .” While some party leaders supported Wang ’ s view, Zhao Ziyang, backed up by Yang Shangkun, argued that artistic work like Heshang conveyed cultural rather than political implications, so it should not be discussed at a political meeting.

Intellectual Debates: The debates about Heshang were also carried on among intellectuals.

Two major liberal newspapers, the Science and Technology Daily of Beijing and the World Economic Herald of Shanghai, sponsored a symposium to discuss issues raised in Heshang.

Debates in Taiwan and Hong Kong: In Taiwan and Hong Kong, newspapers and TV program reported the “ Heshang fever ” debates in P. R. China.

After June 4, 1989: After the CCP ’ s crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the Party criticized Heshang as one of the anti-communist work that mistakenly advocated bourgeoisie-liberal ideologies and provoked student unrest.

* Su Xiaokang and Wang Luxiang, Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series Heshang, translated by Richard Bodman and Pin Pin Wan.

The Book of Common Prayer is called 公禱書 in Chinese ( pinyin: Gong Dao Shu, Jyutping: Gung Tou Sy ).

The " Gong An story " （ 公案小说, literally ：" case records of a public law court "） is the earliest known genre of Chinese detective fiction.

One notable fact is that a number of Gong An works may have been lost or destroyed during the Literary Inquisitions and the wars in ancient China.

Falun Gong differs from Buddhism in its definition of the term " karma ," Ownby says, in that it is taken not as a process of award and punishment, but as an exclusively negative term.

Falun Gong teaches that the spirit is locked in the cycle of rebirth, also known as samsara due to the accumulation of karma.

Falun Gong states that karma is the reason for suffering, and what ultimately blocks people from the truth of the universe and attaining enlightenment.

Ownby says Falun Gong is differentiated by a " system of transmigration " though, " in which each organism is the reincarnation of a previous life form, its current form having been determined by karmic calculation of the moral qualities of the previous lives lived.

( This is called a Gong.

In Buddhist cosmology, the bodhisattva of the Sun is known as Ri Gong Ri Guang Pu Sa ( The Bright Solar Bodhisattva of the Solar Palace ) / Ri Gong Ri Guang Tian Zi ( The Bright Solar Prince of the Solar Palace ) / Ri Gong Ri Guang Zun Tian Pu Sa ( The Greatly Revered Bright Solar Prince of the Solar Palace / one of the 20 or 24 guardian devas ).

He is usually depicted with Yue Gong Yue Guang Pu Sa ( The Bright Lunar Bodhisattva of the Lunar Palace ) / Yue Gong Yue Guang Tian Zi ( The Bright Lunar Prince of the Lunar Palace ) / Yue Gong Yue Guang Zun Tian Pu Sa ( The Greatly Revered Bright Lunar Prince of the Lunar Palace / one of the 20 or 24 guardian devas known as Candraprabha in Sanskrit.

The Deity of the Sun in Chinese mythology is Ri Gong Tai Yang Xing Jun ( Tai Yang Gong / Grandfather Sun ) or Star Lord of the Solar Palace, Lord of the Sun.

Tai Yang Xing Jun is usually depicted with the Star Lord of the Lunar Palace, Lord of the Moon, Yue Gong Tai Yin Xing Jun ( Tai Yin Niang Niang / Lady Tai Yin ).

* May 13 – Falun Gong is introduced by Li Hongzhi in China.

The Grace is said shortly after the fellows enter the Hall, signalled by the sounding of a Gong, and accompanied by the ringing of the College's Grace Bell.

* Dao Kang Di succeeds Gong Hui Di and is followed in the same year by Tai Zu, all of the Dali Gu Dynasty in southeast China.

Falun Gong or Falun Dafa ( literally means " Dharma Wheel Practice ") is a spiritual discipline first introduced in China in 1992 through public lectures by its founder, Li Hongzhi.

In May, ex-Gong musician Mike Howlett invited Sting and former Eric Burdon and the Animals guitarist Andy Summers to form a project band with him for a Gong reunion, which they named Strontium 90.

Ransom Olds named some of the original streets himself, such as Gim Gong Road.

Olds named Gim Gong Road after a Chinese American horticulturist from DeLand, Florida.

For example, Prince Gong of the Qing Dynasty was posthumously named Zhong ( 忠 ), and thus is referred to as Prince Gongzhong ( 恭忠親王 ); Prince Chun was posthumous named Xian ( 賢 ), hence is referred Prince Chunxian ( 醇賢親王 ).

One detractor named Xu Gong, in a letter to Emperor Xian, likened Sun Ce to Xiang Yu, the warrior-king who overthrew the Qin Dynasty.

Two farfetched co-conspirators started one of these rebellions in 25 — Fang Wang ( 方望 ), the former strategist for the local warlord Wei Xiao ( 隗囂 ), and a man named Gong Lin ( 弓林 ) -- and their group of several thousand men, after kidnapping Ying, occupied Linjing ( 臨涇, in modern Qingyang, Gansu ).

Two far-fetched co-conspirators — Fang Wang ( 方望 ), the former strategist for the local warlord Wei Xiao ( 隗囂 ), and a man named Gong Lin ( 弓林 ) -- and their group of several thousand men, after kidnapping the former Duke of Ding ' an, occupied Linjing ( 臨涇, in modern Qingyang, Gansu ).

Their eponymous album, recorded mostly at the New York studio for which the band was named, reached the Top 20 in the UK and the Top 10 in the US, and spawned two hit singles with " Some Like It Hot " ( UK No. 14, US # 6 ) and a cover of the T. Rex song " Get It On ( Bang a Gong )" ( UK No. 22, US # 9 ).

The mountain was named in 1919 by the Interprovincial Boundary Survey after nearby Gong Lake.

* Tuff Gong, Jamaican-based record label, named after Bob Marley's nickname

In 1924, a nine-year old Chinese-American named Martha Lum, daughter of Gong Lum, was prohibited from attending the Rosedale Consolidated High School in Bolivar County, Mississippi solely because she was of Chinese descent.

Since the ruling went against them, the Board of Trustees became the plaintiff and Lum was named the defendant in the case Rice v. Gong Lum, which was heard in the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

In this version, Han's wife was an amateur singer named Zhang, and their 10-year-old son was named Gong Gong.

His character is named Lei Gong, the Chinese equivalent of the Japanese Thunder God Raiden ( his character in the Mortal Kombat series ).